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Learn about the history of Muslim rule in India from the 7th century to the 18th century, including the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire. Find out how Islamic culture, law, and religion influenced the subcontinent's languages, arts, and religions.
Learn about the origins, spread, and diversity of Islam in India, the second-largest religion and third-largest Muslim population in the world. Find out the current and projected percentage of Muslims by states, the role of Islam in Indian history and culture, and the controversies and conflicts related to Islam.
A comprehensive overview of the history of Muslim rule in India from the 8th to the 18th century, covering four phases of invasions, sultanates, empires and religious policies. Learn about the impact of Islam and Muslims on India's culture, society and politics.
The works of Ibn Khordadbeh (c. 870) and Jayhani (c. 910s) were at the basis of a new Perso-Arab tradition in Persia and Central Asia. [10] The exact relationship between the books of Khordadbeh and Jayhani is unknown, because the two books had the same title, have often been mixed up, and Jayhani's book has been lost, so that it can only be approximately reconstructed from the works of other ...
Map showing the Muslim population based on percentage in India, 1909. The two-nation theory was an ideology of religious nationalism that advocated Muslim Indian nationhood, with separate homelands for Indian Muslims and Indian Hindus within a decolonised British India, which ultimately led to the Partition of India in 1947. [1]
Learn about the Arab conquests and conflicts in the Indian subcontinent during the 8th century CE, led by Umayyad Caliphate. Find out how Muhammad bin Qasim captured Sindh and faced Indian resistance from various kingdoms.
Learn about the 1513 world map by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis, which includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolan chart with compass roses and windrose network, and depicts South America with accuracy and detail.
This appears to indicate uncertainty as to America's location, whether it was an island continent in the Atlantic (Western Ocean) or in fact the great peninsula of India Superior shown on earlier maps, such as the 1489 map of the world by Martellus or the 1492 globe of Behaim. [51]: 12–13, 49–51